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He had dawdled over his cigar because he was at heart a dilettante, and thinking over a pleasure to come often gave him a subtler satisfaction than its realisation.
“the real men—who are themselves in fact perpetual boys, since America is adolescence without end—had to differentiate themselves with violence,”
― The Topeka School
― The Topeka School
“I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“The opposite of a truth," Klaus quoted, "is a falsehood; but the opposite of a profound truth...may be another profound truth." It either is or is not August...if I assert it's August when it isn't--simply false; but if I say that life is pain, that is true, profoundly so; so, too, that life is joy; the more profound the statement, the more reversible the deep truths are sedimented in syntax, the terms can be reversed... [Niels Bohr]”
― The Topeka School
― The Topeka School
“Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“Uncompromising purpose and the search for eternal truth have an unquestionable sex appeal for the young and high-minded; but when a person loses the ability to take pleasure in the mundane--in the cigarette on the stoop or the gingersnap in the bath--she had probably put herself in unnecessary danger.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
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